Monthly Archives: January 2009

Developer Productivity in Highly Coupled Systems

I am guessing I read this somewhere at some point, but my current project has motivated me to think about tight coupling and its impact on productivity.
I am a big believer in the idea of “flow,” where developers find their rhythm and begin to move through things quickly.  Over 10 years in the software development [...] Continue reading

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The Art of Software :: Providing Value by Focusing on the Core Domain

At QCon San Francisco 2008, I went to a session with Eric Evans about working in the Core Domain.  It was one of the best software talks I have ever heard, and I am looking forward to InfoQ posting the video so I can share it with a number of friends in the industry.
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2008 :: The Year of Adobe Flex

In 2008, Flex reached the tipping point where it went from a technology with possibilities, to wide spread usage.  The year started with Adobe releasing Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 and finished with an updated release of AIR (1.5).  According to friends at Adobe, in mid-2008 there were about 150,000 Flex developers – a number [...] Continue reading

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